Jake Davis

Title: Controller, Kingsley Gate Partners
Dept/Program: Daverio School of Accountancy Advisory Board

Professional & Academic Experience

Jake is the Controller for Kingsley Gate Partners, an Executive Search Firm with a global reach and expertise in Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial, Hospitality, Life Sciences, Private Equity and Technology. As the Controller, he oversees consolidated accounting and financial reporting, cash management, revenue cycle, payroll cycle, payables cycle, statutory audits, and global financial statement review. He is also charged with migrating the company's ledger to a new accounting system and building out the company's financial planning and analysis process.

Prior to his current role, Jake spent four years in multiple accounting and finance positions at the Townsend Group with responsibilities that included FP&A prep and presentation, month end close, financial statement prep, external audit facilitation, and budget prep. During this time, he also gained extensive project experience with sell-side M&A due diligence, development of internal controls for a private company going public, general ledger transition from QuickBooks to Workday, and development of business unit FP&A processes that role into public parent company earnings reports.

Jake started his accounting career at PwC, Cleveland, as an audit associate in the Financial Services sector and was assigned to a team who was engaged with a Fortune 100 company in the insurance industry.

Jake holds a BBA in Finance from Kent State University as of 2009, an MS in Accountancy from the University of Akron as of 2014, and a CPA License as of 2016. While attending UofA, he was President of the Gamma-Eta Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi.